But, knowing that the supply would be both short and stale in winter, they held out prospects of a Canadian Tatler or Spectator, without, however, being rash enough to promise a supply of Addisons and Steeles.

' Addisons Cato, act.

Of Holland House, the last residence of Addison, it would require a long article to give a fitting idea.

There is also a portrait of Addison, which belonged to his daughter.

The traditions regarding Addison here are very slight.

He was intimate with Addison, a close friend of Steele, and on terms with Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Garth, the author of The Dispensary.

Addison, she knew, and Steele, and Arbuthnot, and Jervas, and Gay, who presently paid her a pretty compliment in Mr. Pope's Welcome from Greece, wherein he inserted tributes to the ladies of the Court: "What lady's that to whom he gently bends?

And it is peculiar to Dryden (says Mr. Addison) to make his personages, as wise, witty, elegant and polite as himself.

Who ever saw Banks's earl of Essex represented without tears; how few bestow them upon the Cato of Addison.

[Horace]; but thou shall flourish in immortal youth [Addison]; Eternity!

thou pleasing, dreadful thought [Addison]; her immortal part with angels lives [Romeo and Juliet]; ohne Rast [G.],

a thousand trills and quivering sounds [Addison]; forensis strepitus [Lat.].

Some of the papers of Steele and Addison in the Tatler, Guardian, and the Spectator are of course notable; but it was not until the appearance of Charles Lamb that the personal essay reached its climax in English literature.

Mr. Nichols holds, that Addison is the most taking of all that I have done.

This huge man, with gigantic strength and fierce passions, is said to have been endowed with tender sympathies, and to have had a scholar's love for Shakspeare and Addison.

The father uses language of whose absolutely vapid correctness Addison would have been proud.

Addisons greatest critics had something to learn when they were blind to the significance of the contrast between Visible Strength at the opening of this poem, and the close with sublime prophecy of an unseen Power of the Future that disturbs Zeus on his throne, and gathers his thunders about the undaunted Prometheus.

The remarks on the poetry of Dryden, Addison, and Pope are generally excellent, and always give the genuine expression of an independent judgment.

[Footnote 23: Relating to the impressment of seamen from the United States whale ship Addison at Valparaiso, and imprisonment of William A. Stewart, an American citizen, at Valparaiso on the charge of murder, and on conviction released by Chilean authorities.

The anecdotes, to borrow a phrase from Addison, are the "sweetmeats" of the book, but the caution with which they are admitted, adds to their worth.

The running reader may say that much of this portion is not entirely new to him: granted; but it would be unwise to reject an anecdote for its popularity; as Addison thought of "Chevy Chase," its commonness is its worth.

"Addison's Cato.

"ADDISON: in Joh.

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Addisons greatest critics had something to learn when they were blind to the significance of the contrast between Visible Strength at the opening of this poem, and the close with sublime prophecy of an unseen Power of the Future that disturbs Zeus on his throne, and gathers his thunders about the undaunted Prometheus.